She might have healed the nerves, but not the supporting bones and discs. When Harry screws Winter law, he gets sort of an herniated vertebral disc?

I thinks it the other way around. Bones and Softer tissue heal naturally without magic even proper care.  Nerves do not just mend themselves naturally.  Mab accelerated bone and disc healing and magic bridges the nerves until Harry's "wizard healing" completes the process if it can at all.

Great job on the headache list, I was having trouble tracking them down.  Here are my theories: With these references and the context in which they occur, the odd or random headaches don't start until after Dead Beat.  Which leads me to believe they are linked to Liverspots' death curse since it is still unclear what effect it had on Harry.  Although, Liverspots wasn't a wizard, so how would he manage to work up a death curse at all without a ritual or with borrowed power?  Or, Liverspots released a shade of his own to whisper to him during Changes? 

  Harry gets headaches from trauma and memory manipulation. And after some brief research into brain mapping, headaches moving from the neck to the crown sound like stress and trauma pains because that is where motor controls are in the brain.  During Small Favor Mab played around in his head and Harry got the ice picks to the temples when he tried to remember because that's where recognition and long term memory are stored.  That leaves the eyebrow or "third eye" headache which is where decision making functions are located. I think that is a big clue. 


If not Liverspots' "curse" then when did Harry acquire the parasite?  Bianca's party during GP when Lea (and very likely Ferrovax) were infected by Outsider influence?  Harry was taken and unconscious for a while.  Or maybe before the series' began.  Two things have always felt odd about Dumourne's death and Elaine's enthrallment.  From my point of view Harry just assumed Dumourne enthralled Elaine and went off on him.  I can't remember the exact book or page but Harry mentions the event to Bob and he said "yeah, right." Bob will omit information if Harry doesn't compel him to answer.  Also, we still haven't read about Harry's deal with Lea.  Lea could have performed a memory altering on Harry at his request, he's done it once already.  Was Harry infected by the Outsiders then and Lea locked that part of his mind to contain it and after the incident at the caves weakened that barrier?   

Sorry if it seems my theories run away with themselves.  But how does that sound to you?

Matt Boomer is a really good choice for Thomas.  Michael Fassbender feels like a Marcone to me or Nichodemus.  Anna Silk would be a good Lara Raith.  Zoe Saldana for Tera West.  Charlize Theron, Olivia Wilde, and Emma Stone could play any variation of fairy Queens.  Mila Kunis for Justine.  I could go on and on but i can only match them to the closest actor/actress I know about.  Hugo Weaving and Michael Chiklis I just want to be in it somewhere.  Hugo for Merlin and Chiklis for Carmichael is i had to pick right now.  Only Wes Studi can play Listens-to-Wind. 

I'm an aspiring writer like so many others out there across this big blue marble.  I see alot of English degrees and literary professionals—some talented and some not so much—get published and talk about a professor or colleague that contributed to honing their craft.  I feel discouraged when I see this.  I read books about writing.  I study the books I love like a kid who takes his toys apart to see how they tick.  But I can't help but feel inadequate.  I know not every writer has a degree, but I never even finished my English course in college.

I've written some short stories, sure.  Only my close friends have read them.  My problem is that I don't know where to go, on the Internet or otherwise, to get an opinion on my writing or idea except for friends.  No offense to them but I don't want a bias or soft critique.  On the other hand, I don't know of I'm ready to be told definitively to keep my day job. LoL (tried to keep from using Internet terms, sorry)

So here I am.  I don't have much confidence in myself but I want to be better and I want to tell a story or two.  Where do I go? What do I do?  I've heard of seminars and writers retreats but rural Oklahoma isn't exactly a home to many writers.  I hope I've come to right place.